How to munge a full Core.lvl

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:41 pm

For those of you who are heavily modding the game, here is the core.req file needed to munge a replacment core.lvl.

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{
	REQN
	{
		"bnk"
		"align=2048"
		"global"
	}
	REQN
	{
		"config"
		"global"
	}
	REQN
	{
		"font"
		"gamefont_large"
		"gamefont_medium"
		"gamefont_small"
		"starwars_small"
		"gamefont_tiny"
		"gamefont_super_tiny"
		
	}
	REQN
	{
		"loc"
		"english"
		"spanish"
		"italian"
		"french"
		"german"
		"uk_english"
	}
	REQN
	{
		"texture"
		"platform=pc"
		"white"
		"cube_normalizationmap"
		"hemisphere_normalizationmap"
		"specularspot"
		"attenuation_volume"
		"linear_ramp"
		"specularcubemap"
		"null_detailmap"
		"default_spotlight"
	}
	REQN
	{
		"shader"
		"platform=pc"
		"normal_shader"
		"interface_shader"
		"particle_shader"
		"terrain_shader"
		"sprite_shader"
		"skyfog_shader"
		"foliage_shader"
		"lightbeam_shader"
		"scroll_shader"
		"flare_shader"
		"sample_shader"
		"rain_shader"
		"normalmapadder_shader"
		"prereflection_shader"
		"water_shader"
		"stencilshadow_shader"
		"shadowquad_shader"
		"specular_shader"
		"detail_shader"
		"ocean_shader"
		"refraction_shader"
		"decal_shader"
		"filtercopy_shader"
		"shield_shader"
		"bump_shader"
		"zprepass_shader"
		"hdr_shader"
		"normal_terrain_shader"
		"perpixeldiffuselighting_shader"
		"pervertexdiffuselighting_shader"
		"specularlighting_shader"
		"terrain_shader2"
	}
}

According to extract, this core.lvl is still missing CORE SPECIAL section of length 63472(F7F0) which is present at the start of the retail core.lvl version, but it seems to work fine without it.

Also, I copied the textures null_detailmap, default_spotlight, and white into the PC directory. I'm not sure if it matters.

There may be an extra shader and/or font or two, but I don't feel like testing them all out. Enjoy.

Edit: Darn, I found a problem with it. If you play on Hoth, almost all the whiteness is missing.

Post by **Teancum** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:53 pm

Holy crap! You're the man. Send me any localization keys you'll be adding to your shell. I can put all that plus all the BF1 pack in ONE core.lvl.

Post by **Teancum** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:56 pm

Sorry to bump, but Zerted -- what do you mean that almost all of the 'white' is missing? Can you post a screen? It might help in analyzing whether it's a shader or texture. If it's a texture, we can extract it from core.lvl

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:58 pm

What are some of the things you could do with the new core.lvl? Could you take out the bonuses?

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:18 pm

The core.lvl is mostly for the language strings, shaders, and some textures. I'll get a picture up in a couple of days.

Post by **Qdin** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:32 am

So like the in-game screens?

like making new buttons instead of the old ones?

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:43 pm

We can get English text and descriptions into a new shell, but we need to create a custom core.lvl inorder to convert the strings into other languages so people who don't read English can understand them too.

shell.lvl - startup sequence, credits, the main menus, displays, and main campain screens you see when you are not in a game
common.lvl -stat screens, pause menu, option screens, pop-up messages, keyboard, controls, mouse, some other interface utility scripts
mod maps' core.lvl -new strings used by mod map
game's core.lvl -fonts, all strings, some map textures, shaders
ingame.lvl -side/map/character/spawn selection screens, fake console, spectator screen, ingame textures (huds, map icons, etc...), effects (weapon trails, explosions...), some common models and classes (CPs, flags, ammo packs...)
inshell.lvl -effects used while in the shell?
mission.lvl -game mode scripts, retail maps' scripts

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:46 pm

So I'm thinking it's a no go with taking out the awards? I wonder where they get called from.

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:48 pm

Awards are related to the sides. The normal weapon has an award weapon setting in the odf.

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:55 am

Yes, of course. I mean like the damage reduction and guardian, sorry. I just despise those little auroras? and noises.

Hebes24 · Post by **Hebes24** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:33 am

sawyerdk9 wrote:Yes, of course. I mean like the damage reduction and guardian, sorry. I just despise those little auroras? and noises.

I hate those too :evil:!! they can even make my computer lag sometimes!!:evil::evil:

Vyse · Post by **Vyse** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:33 am

sawyerdk9 wrote:Yes, of course. I mean like the damage reduction and guardian, sorry. I just despise those little auroras? and noises.

You can take all that away by making a new side.

Does this core.lvl mean we can have our own custom loading screen shot?

Post by **Teancum** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:05 pm

Nope -- all that's done in load.lvl -- I have all the configs, but I'd have to remake it to include every downloaded map. It won't work for individual ones at the moment. I *THINK* it might work like the BF1 preview movies did. If that's the case, I should be able to get something working on a per-map basis.

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:11 pm

Vyse wrote:
sawyerdk9 wrote:Yes, of course. I mean like the damage reduction and guardian, sorry. I just despise those little auroras? and noises.
You can take all that away by making a new side.

Does this core.lvl mean we can have our own custom loading screen shot?

Vyse you're saying that you can make it so that there is no powerups (Guardian, damage reduction, etc) through a new side. I mod the game hardcore with all different sides and I've never seen anything related to those.

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:35 pm

I haven't spent much time looking into how the awards get activated. I think its done by the game's exe which is illegal to change (or even look at). I'll look into disabling the awards from the Lua scripts after I get the new shell and noname hack block posted. I dislike the awards too.

Post by **Teancum** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:17 pm

Okay -- so findings on that Hoth error you were talking about Zerted. Apparently there's some sort of terrain shader that blends multple texture layers in-game. Dagobah, Yavin.... any map with more than one texture for the terrain shows nothing. Plus, it may just be the terrain shader period. It may have nothing to do with multiple layers - one layer might present a problem as well.

MasterSkywalker · Post by **MasterSkywalker** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:25 pm

Thx dude, I really needed this to get the SWBF1 interface back. Do you also have the req for the SWBF1 core?

Post by **Teancum** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:50 pm

Huh? This has NOTHING to do with the SWBF1 interface. And it is 100% impossible to do the old interface. The HUD maybe, but I don't know anyone who wants to take a huge project like that on.

Post by **[RDH]Zerted** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:00 pm

No, I never even downloaded the SWBF1 mod tools. I used a program called extract, to take a look inside the game's .lvl files, then I attempted to create an .req that matched what I saw. Search through the earily modding posts for more info on extract.

Any ideas on what file that blender is?

I think the game reads the strings from the custom maps by setting the DC directory to that map. If this is correct, we could create a custom map with all the strings, and have the game default to that map whenever it wants to read strings from the retail core.lvl.

Post by **Teancum** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:46 am

I got it to munge. It was quite simple actually. Just remove:

"terrain_shader2"

from the req. It was causing a conflict.

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